BlkBird2000

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Merging on the interstate I was behind a slow car. I hit it and quickly went around them. Going about 75 and still on the gas, my t-tops decide to make a run for it. BOTH, at the same time, fly straight off my car! The t-top shades came down and hit me and my friend in the head and scared the **** out of us. When they flipped out of the car one of them hit the back windshield which left a little scuff on it but the hit was so hard that it shattered the t-top which threw glass all over my spoiler and deck lid scratching the **** outta my paint. My insurance luckily is gonna pay for it all to be fixed. Point in this thread is for you to always double check your t-tops when you put them back in. By the way they were LOCKED in! I've heard of one flying out but not two at the same time. Since i've bought this car it has been away from me more than in my own garage! This car doesn't like me very much. lol

onoiocoko

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if they were lock, is it possible the body flexed soo much under acceleration that they got out? thats alot of room for it to move, but if the adjustments on the mounts were ever messed with i could see this being the problem.

pddye

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if the handles are in the locked position I don't see how this could happen unless like onoiocoko said with the recieving adjustments being way off. Sorry to hear that happened to ya. I'm sure that was a shock watching them both take and fly off.

blackfang

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Thankfully, I do not have to worry about that.

Kingc8r

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In this case Hardtop FTMFW!!! Sorry about your mishap, as you said luckily the insurance is helping you out.

Tuffguy610

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I remember when I lost my T-top in my 1992 Camaro. It was a nice spring night out after work so I decided to take a ride down a nice country road. It got cold out halfway down the road so I pulled into a shopping center and put the roof back on. I drove for about 5 more miles before making a u-turn to come home. I had the stereo loud, and the heat blasting while I had the windows down. When I got to a traffic light with a big street light above it I said, "why is there so much light in here?" I look up, and my passenger t top is missing. I wondered why there was a huge draft. I went back and re-traced the whole drive, and found the t-top laying on an embankment next to the road. It was dark out, I don't know how I did it! So I went to pick it up, all that happened to it was a little gash in the side, and THATS IT! I put it back on and drove home. My friend with his 2000 Firebird was not so lucky two summers ago. He lost his on a highway going 70mph, and it was never seen again. We got him a junkyard t-top off a 95 Z28 in the junkyard, it is rusted up where the pins are but it does the job.

BlkBird2000

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Where I merged on and got off the ramp there is a dip in the road and then a hill right after. Maybe there was a lot of flex in it. That's the only reason that they could of both flown out at the same time..? Oh well, new paint job.

Jordan S.

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I had one fly off in a race once, I thought it was locked down but who knows. Its scary LOL The guy behind me said mine flew up straight into the air and they lost sight of it.

My sun shade came off and hit me in the head too. I didn't know what was going on.

qwk93ta

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I had an 87 IROC with t-tops and the driver's side came off, I don't think I had it locked...........

foreverzero

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HA HA i bet it scared the **** outta that slow car...taught him to drive slow!

SweeTbone

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I've only done that once in my 89 Formula 350. I release my t-tops during storage just so it doesn't crush the weather stripping down a lot. Pulled it out of storage and forgot to latch them in. So just coming out of storage, some spirited driving was in order. Cruising about 50 and hit a bump and the passenger just bumped up about 2 inches and landed back in position. I glanced up and slow down with the quickness to like 5 MPH, latched both my tops and took off again, saying my blessings. Now I write down a checklist when I put my 2000 in storage. T-tops, moisture absorb and shop rags out of my exhaust tips, and any other misc. stuff I do when I put it in storage.

sevenstarsfall

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I always put mine on and try to lift up on them to make sure theyre secure....Ive always wanted to watch them fly into the air but never on my car. Sucks but luckily your insurance is gonna cover it and it didnt hit another car or start a multi-car wreck on the freeway, now that wouldve sucked!!

CRAGER

Locking them has nothing to do with it, its called "latching" them in. The lock keeps from you unlatching them to remove them.
I don't know how anybody can forget to latch them in and just "rest" them on the car. Latch them in and then lock them so nobody can steal them.

The adjusters are easy to get to. Next time you're in your car look up and see how far the t-top is getting latched. If they barely go in, adjust them.

Peace,
Craig.

Wolfgang427

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Wow thats some scary ****. I would be pissed.

RyderTA

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I had a friend that lost one on the dragstrip going down the 1/4, damn thing shattered and closed the track while they cleaned it up. Needless to say, he felt like a jackass.

its turbo time

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i had a burst disc blow on my nitrous bottle which took my unsecured blow down and turned it into a whip destroying everything it touched. including my passenger side t-top. little off topic but i know how gay it is missing a t-top. good luck

waldershrek

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I guess I'm another one who has never had this problem. I just don't understand how people can either forget or not realize they aren't latched.

Soul TKR

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It has nothing to do with whether the t-tops were latched/locked etc... the adjustment on the t-top bracket is what needs to be looked at and is in most cases the reason the tops are flying off of our cars... see here...

http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread...70#post3666970

Black99T\A

iTrader: (17)

man, thats crazy

wabmorgan

NO!!!!!!!!